E-Resources

ACLS History E-Book Project

History books published by various university presses and learned societies, with over 1,200 titles as of January 2006.

Books24x7

Computing and information technology. Maximum three simultaneous Stanford users allowed.

Casalini EIO

Casalini Editoria Italiana Online is a set of current (1970s-present) monographs, journals, and proceedings covering history, classics, anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, and other topics.

Dissertations and Theses

Information about locating dissertations and theses, both those completed at Stanford University and those from other universities.

ebrary

Full-text searching and retrieval of over 35,000 titles in various disciplines, with rich "information toolset." Browser plug-in required. Stanford's subscription allows printing and copying from ebrary at no charge, although some titles have restrictions on the number of pages that may be printed or copied.

Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)

More than 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages from titles in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Gutenberg-e

Full-text scholarly monographs in history, available originally and exclusively as digital books, presented by Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association.

Knovel

Engineering and scientific online references, including the CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics.

Linking the Americas

Latin American studies from the Stanford University Press and Stanford University Libraries.

Literature Online (LION)

Over 350,000 full-text titles in English-language poetry, prose, drama, criticism and theory, as well as related author materials

MyiLibrary (New!)

E-books from selected commercial publishers, most notably Springer, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press, as well as intergovernmental publications from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Labour Organisation, and others. Works best in Internet Explorer.

National Academy Press

Full text searching and viewing of more than 3,000 titles (as of March 2006) in various disciplines.

The Online Books Page

Index of online books freely readable on the Web, maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom of the University of Pennsylvania.

Safari Tech Books

Selected computing books, mostly O'Reilly publications. SULAIR's Mathematical and Computer Sciences Library maintains a browsable list of current titles.